government

Gerrymandering game shows you how it works

Infographics / game, gerrymandering, government

Gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating boundaries in such a way that favors…
Data distributed as clipart

Mistaken Data / clipart, Excel, government

Government data isn’t always the easiest to use with computers. Maybe it’s in…
Trump approval ratings compared to past presidents

Statistical Visualization / FiveThirtyEight, government

Using multiple polls as their source data, FiveThirtyEight is tracking approval and disapproval…
Shifting national budget

Infographics / budget, government, Washington Post

The Washington Post looks at the shifting national budget over the past 40…
Easily download large-ish survey datasets

Data Sources / government, R, surveys

Many government organizations release microdata for surveys every year. It comes as anonymized…
Open data from The White House returns no results

Data Sharing / closed data, government

When you search for datasets on The White House site, you get nothing.…
Track what your government representatives are doing for you

Data Sources / API, elections, government, ProPublica

Taking over an old New York Times project, ProPublica re-launches Represent, which offers…
US surveillance flight paths for the FBI and Homeland Security

Maps / BuzzFeed, government, privacy, surveillance

Peter Aldhous and Charles Seife dug into flight path data, specifically looking for…
Data USA makes government data easier to explore

Apps / government, open data

Government data is, shall we say, not the easiest to use and look…
Possible paths for a Trump nomination loss or win

Infographics / elections, government, simulation, Upshot

It pains me to imagine a time when Donald Drumpf earns a Republican…
Supreme Court shifts in power

Infographics / government, Supreme Court, Upshot

The Upshot has been doing a good bit on the Supreme Court dynamics…
Campaign Finance API moves to ProPublica

Data Sources / election, government, ProPublica

Back in 2008, the New York Times rolled out a campaign finance API…
US Census Bureau open source

Software / Census Bureau, government, open-source

It took forever and it’s way overdue, but the United States Census Bureau…
How various demographic groups can change the election result

Statistics / elections, FiveThirtyEight, government

Does your vote matter? Aaron Bycoffe and David Wasserman for FiveThirtyEight provide an…
Missing votes in Congress

Infographics / government, ProPublica

When members of the House of Representatives miss a vote, it is customary…
Decent presidential candidate options.

Miscellaneous / government, humor

I have no idea what’s going on here, and I prefer to keep…
Surveillance selfie with cell phone metadata

Self-surveillance / government, mobile, privacy

Just because there’s no content that comes with the metadata doesn’t make the latter useless.
The Statistical Atlas that Keeps On Going

Statistical Atlas / government, United States

I already revived the first Statistical Atlas of the United States from 1870 with modern data, but there’s still more data to look at. So I kept on going.
Why government sites are outdated and very much not fun to use

Software / government, Reply All

Government data sites are typically sluggish and a pain to use. So many…
Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data

Statistical Atlas / government, United States

Due to budget cuts, there is no plan for an updated atlas. So I recreated the original 1870 Atlas using today’s publicly available data.

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